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Friday, April 8, 2016

The Green Face Datuk (青面拿督)

Uncle Beng
owns a piece of agricultural land beside existing Bukit Mertajam Recreational
Forest. He planted some durians and black pepper plants. Whenever we need to
enter the place mainly to enjoy the durians, Uncle Beng will first bring us to
a giant anthill to pray for the datuk spirit. He said that the datuk that
guards the area is the so-called ‘Datuk Hijau’ or the ‘Green Datuk’.

There are
some taboos on entering the Datuk Hijau’s domain and in particular the jungle:

First, one
should not talk nonsense and control one’s language because this datuk is the ‘Datuk
Hijau’ which is the hottest temper of all the datuks. So, one must be very
careful as not to offend him unnecessarily.

Second, it
is forbidden to bring along raw meats and bloods to the forest, especially the
pork because those things will attract evil spirits; and pork will offend the
Datuk Hijau since he is thought to be a muslim.

Third, it
is best to call each other by nickname than the real name.

Forth, it
is forbidden to bring items from the forest back in fear of the item may be
haunted.

Fifth, it
is forbidden to enter the forest after dark unless with the datuk’s permission.

According
to Uncle Beng, the anthill is alive and it is constantly growing. The first
time he saw this anthill, it was only 3 feet tall. Now it has grown to slightly
more than 5 feet tall.

At the
initial stage of forest clearing for planting durian, Uncle Beng spent a lot of
money to buy food offerings to the Datuk Hijau and all went very well until two
of his Indonesian workers for some reasons, tried to chop the anthill with
machetes. Due to the chopping of machetes, a large hole was formed. It was said
that some green smoke suddenly rushed out from the hole.

Both of the
workers were scared and ran back to their hostel. Uncle Beng was coincidentally
there and after he has learnt of the incident, he quickly rushed to the anthill
with both of the workers.

To their
surprised, there was no hole in the anthill. Apparently the hole was somehow sealed
by something and the anthill looked just as before. Uncle Beng knew that his
workers were in trouble so he planned to dismiss them as soon as their contract
expired.

A few days
later, surprisingly speaking; the two workers accidentally disturbed a big nest
of ground hornet. Suddenly hundreds of hornets rushed out from the nest and
attacked the workers. Strangely as it may be, the hornets seemed only
interested in attacking those two workers and left ten others alone.

No one
dares to assist the dual because most of the workers didn’t have protective
clothing to fence off the hornets. Ten minutes later, the hornets dispersed. By
then, both of the poor workers had died.

Uncle Beng
later added that the incident was expected but he didn’t expect the retribution
came so fast. Hence, whenever Uncle visits his land, he would first pray to the
anthill said to be the emanation of Datuk Hijau.